The soul, interfused everywhere from the centre to the circumference of heaven, of which also she is the external envelopment, herself turning in herself, began a divine beginning of never-ceasing and rational life enduring throughout all time.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The Frank, Count Neroweg, has the appearance and emits the odor of a wild-boar in spring; his face resembles a bird of prey, with his beaked nose and restless little eyes that alternately assume a savage and then a sleepy look; his coarse yellow hair, tied over his head with a leather thong, falls back over his neck like a mane; the coiffure of these barbarians remained unchanged during the last two centuries.
— from The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

A Roman lady, even though a fugitive, should not be travelling about the country under the protection of a lad.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

" She sat down and he released her hands with a reluctance less evident than actual.
— from The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

It made a flash, and roared louder even than a hand-blaster, and the cow jerked convulsively and was dead.
— from Flight From Tomorrow by H. Beam Piper

Hogarth had become possessed of his father-in-law Sir James Thornhill's furniture, which he was willing to lend to an association of artists founding a new school; a subscription was accordingly arranged, and a room 'large enough to admit of thirty or forty persons drawing after a naked figure,' was hired in the house of Mr. Hyde, a painter in Greyhound Court, Arundel Street, Strand.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

This would be tantamount to saying that there is no difference between dreams and real life, except that a dream is cut off by awaking while life lasts comparatively much longer and ceases with death, which may also be an awakening from a dream.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

The cylindrical exit-way passes through the strata of wood along the shortest line, almost normally, after a slight bend which connects the vertical with the horizontal, a curve with a radius large enough to allow the stiff Buprestis to tack about without difficulty.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre